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My first job was pumping gas at regular neighbour gas station and one day a semi rolled in because he was low on gas. He insisted that we use both diesel pumps
by Teever 5mo ago
My first job was pumping gas at regular neighbour gas station and one day a semi rolled in because he was low on gas. He insisted that we use both diesel pumps on the pump so that it would take faster and it still took forever. I can't remember if he filled both side of his truck but if he did that would have required him to go around the island to get the other side tank.
I've only been to a cardlock station a few times but the pumps seem like regular pumps.
I just looked it up and apparently regular gas station pumps in Canada are limited to 38 L/min (10 US gal/min) but some cardlock stations can have larger pumps with a higher rate on them.
If a semi truck has two saddle tanks that's 200-300 gallons, but some trucks can apparently carry more? I'm not an expert on this, But I can reach out to a friend who owns a crane and trucking company if someone else doesn't chime in with a more detailed response.
So at 200-300 gallons and 10 gallons per minute it can take 20-30 minutes to fill a truck.
- ticulatedspline 5mo agostats vary. seems ~250 is common (2x 125 gals) and long haul ranges up to 2,000 miles. Though another way to think of filling up is miles per minute. At 10Gal/Min and 7MPG that's pumping 70 miles a minute into the tank. an 80% charge in 30 minutes on a 500 mile range battery is ~13 Miles a minute so roughly 5x slower
- aidenn0 5mo ago60% charge in 30 minutes (20-80%) so 10 miles/minute and 7x slower.
- bombcar 5mo agoTruck stop pumps can do 30 GPM "on both sides" as they have two pumps connected to one bay. There are faster (600 GPM or more) but those are specialized for loading boats, etc; the air can't escape the tank fast enough to use those on a truck.
- shawn_w 5mo agoI don't know about exact rates, but diesel pumps in banks intended for semis have a larger diameter nozzle that flows faster than the normal sized ones, yeah. They won't fit diesel cars/vans/light trucks.
- ZeroGravitas 5mo agoSome Chinese EVs have charge ports on both sides and can be charged faster by using both at the same time. Not quite as elegant as the new flash chargers that rival the Tesla truck chargers with megawatt speeds but interesting.